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Scheduled to fly later this month is a European Space Agency (ESA) student project that will find a space tether performing a capsule deorbit maneuver. Parts of Africa, the Middle East, South America (below 55 degrees S), Antarctic Peninsula (above 82 degrees South), Eastern Russia and Western Alaska (above 170 degrees East) should find the tether visible.
Read MoreAccording to the Hindustan Times online site, seven geo-stationary satellites are going to be built by India. According to India’s Secretary in the Department of Space (and the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)), G. Madhavan Nair, the design of the satellites is more or less complete and they are in the process of building the first prototype model.
Read MoreActivities are now underway by a team led by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LTM] to reconfigure a modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite. Included in this project will be a new demo payload to temporarily transmit a third civil signal following a successful review by the U.S. Air Force.
Read MoreThe initial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) $207 million, three-year contract for the development and deployment of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has been awarded to ITT Corporation. This program is tasked with improving the safety and efficiency of the growing demands of air transportation.
Read MoreKnowing where to go, or having assistance in doing so, avoids numerous cuts and bruises and otherwise dented vehicles while scrambling for a map in the glove compartment, or pulling the map from your face with your car window open while driving… fortunately, there is the new Garmin nüvi 700 series satellite navigation system just released. The user interface is intuitive and offers an easy navigation experience.
Read MoreThe second test satellite in the Galileo navigation constellation is on its way to ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from Thales Alenia Space’s plant in Rome. In Rome, Thale’s plant conducted satellite integration, platform and system tests, as well as vibration and shock assessments.
Read MoreAn unqualified success… a conclusion that now thrums with delight through the very soul of folk who work at Boeing, specifically Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, as the firm’s fourth-month demo of the Boeing Orbital Express system in the rigors of space reach their culmination.
Read MoreYet another successful launch… the birds are truly flying well of late. INSAT-4CR was inserted into orbit by the GLSV-FO4 with a lift-off occurring from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota at 6:21 p.m. on Sunday, September 2nd. Packing 12 Ku-band transponders, the satellite was injected into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) of 170 km perigee and 35,975 km apogee with an orbital inclination of 21.7 degrees with respect to the equator about 17.55 minutes after lift-off.
Read MoreOne down, two to go… the first of three review phases required by the Safety Review Panel (SRP) at NASA have been completed quite successfully by SpaceX for the mission of sending their Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over four days at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, SpaceX engineers who are developing the Dragon spacecraft presented their Phase I plan for this voyage to ISS.
Read MoreTesting… testing… electrical power system, attitude determination and control system, telemetry, tracking and command and navigation payload… wow, they’re all working as they should and have been integrated properly into the satellite. That’s the word from the Global Positioning Wing who has successfully passed the Initial Integrated System Test on the first GPS Block IIF satellite at the Boeing Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California.
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